Showing 1 - 10 of 83
We estimate the demand for transaction and non-transaction cash balances in Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway … over the last decades using the seasonal method. These countries share many features that are relevant for cash demand, but … nevertheless show large differences in terms of aggregate cash balances. While Canada, Iceland and Denmark have seen increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563963
This paper demonstrates how a target for money growth can be beneficial for an inflation targeting central bank acting under discretion. Because the growth rate of money is closely related to the change in the interest rate and he growth of real output, delegating a money growth target to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321281
We use an 'unexplained demand for cash' approach to measure the size of the shadow economy in Sweden. The size of the … changes in net financial positions. Moreover, the correlation between the demand for cash that cannot be explained by recorded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320752
In this paper, I investigate quantitatively how sensitive a typical backward-looking model used in monetary plicy analysis is to the Lucas critique. To do this, I use an equilibrium business cycle model with a Taylor-type rule for nominal money growth. The backward-looking model displays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321301
In this paper, I try to shed some new light on the puzzle why the Lucas critique, belived to be important by most economists, seems to have received very little empirical support. I use a real business cycle model to examine the properties of the super exogeneity test, which is used to detect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321356
Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada and Sweden, which might … suggest that cash will eventually disappear. However, cash in circulation in most countries, including Canada, has been stable … for decades, and even rising in recent years. In contrast, aggregate cash demand in Sweden has been falling steadily. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182838
There is much in our increasingly digitized economies to suggest that the use of cash should fall. However, in almost … developing countries and an extensive set of possible explanatory variables to estimate panel regressions for cash demand. In … new finding is that our estimations point to a negative relationship between cash and corruption, and between cash and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497745
Market distress can be the catalyst of a deleveraging wave, as in the 2007/08 financial crisis. This paper demonstrates how market distress and deleveraging can fuel each other in the presence of adverse selection problems in asset markets. At the core of the detrimental feedback loop is agents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427084
I revisit the potential costs and benefits for Sweden of joining the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union. I first show that the Swedish business cycle since the mid-1990s has been closely correlated with the Euro area economies, suggesting that common shocks have been an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320726
Policymakers often use the output gap, a noisy signal of economic activity, as a guide for setting monetary policy. Noise in the data argues for policy caution. At the same time, the zero bound on nominal interest rates constrains the central bank's ability to stimulate the economy during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320733